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Senate Democrats Launch Campaign to Reduce Student Debt
With the staggering cost of college a key issue on the presidential campaign trail, Senate Democrats are seizing the opportunity to promote a legislative package designed to address affordability. On Thursday, lawmakers unveiled the Reducing Educational Debt (RED) Act, comprised of three bills that party members have championed over the last year or two. The package includes legislation introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in 2014 to let borrowers refinance their federal and private student loans at a lower interest rate.
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Last Run for Current SAT This Week; New One Debuts in March
The current version of the SAT college entrance exam has its final run this weekend, when hundreds of thousands of students nationwide will sit, squirm or stress through the nearly four-hour reading, writing and math test. A new revamped version debuts in March. Sixteen-year-old Alex Cohen, a junior at the Miami Country Day School in Florida, thinks he’s solid on math, but he’s been studiously cramming on vocabulary words to get ready for the exam. “I don’t want to study for the new one, so hopefully I’ll do well on this one,” he said.
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Big Names Backing 2016 Candidates; Will It Help?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the impact of presidential candidate endorsements on voters.
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Patient Groups Funded by Drugmakers Are Largely Mum on High Drug Prices
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School shares his thoughts about pharmaceutical companies providing funding for patient groups while stifling the groups’ voice in the debate over increasing drug prices.
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Should Colleges Measure Well-Being?
When students go through college, it isn’t enough for them to excel academically; they should flourish. That idea was the focus of a session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The session was organized by Bringing Theory to Practice, an independent nonprofit group that works with AAC&U. The session focused on the role of student well-being in higher education: What can colleges do to promote their students’ well-being? Why is student well-being an outcome that colleges should pay attention to in the first place?
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Pell Grant Expansion A Goal of Obama Administration
The Obama administration wants to expand the federal Pell grant program to help more students graduate from college — by providing them with money to attend classes year-round and reward them for taking more credits. Two new proposals, announced Tuesday by the Education Department, would expand the $29 billion program by $2 billion in the new fiscal year. They’ll be part of President Barack Obama’s budget proposal next month.
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Wanted: High-character Students
Each year colleges invite applicants to sing their own praises, by listing achievements and proclaiming passions. Now some admissions offices are emphasizing students’ concern for others and the world beyond their test-prep manuals. For the last few months, some admissions leaders have quietly discussed strategies for encouraging good citizenship, not just résumé-polishing, among high-school students.
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The Strange Life of Q-tips, the Most Bizarre Thing People Buy
Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School comments on the difficulty in changing how consumers perceive Q-tips due to their history brand.
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Should College Be Free?
Politicians on the right and left are talking about college affordability. Democratic presidential candidates are divided over how much should be done to ease the cost of higher education. Tennessee is offering free community college tuition to all its high school graduates and a slate of candidates for the Board of Overseers at Harvard University wants to end undergraduate tuition there. To level the playing field, should tuition at public colleges be ended?
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First-generation College Students Are Not Succeeding In College, and Money Isn’t the Problem
Christopher Feaster lived in a homeless shelter in D.C. for most of high school. Laundry was a once-a-month luxury. “I would have to re-wear socks,” he says. “They were white socks, but they were so dirty that they were brown and sometimes they were starting to go black. I had to re-wear underwear because I didn’t have clean underwear.” Homeless students face terrible odds of graduating high school, but Christopher excelled at school.